I never thought a wildfire could sweep through my town. Until it did

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1. Small towns can prepare – areas where it’s harder for fire to pass can help.

   >Huge amounts of fuel (dead and down trees, mostly) were removed and an aggressive mowing and hazard-reduction burning program initiated.

2. Downtown Buffalo just had our first tornado ever

   We had something like two tornadoes in the last 100 years

   We’ve had SIX this summer alone! Things are not normal

3. This is what I was just talking about yesterday, about a friend of mine who lives in California. He’s already had a wildfire come with a mile or two of his house, his homeowners insurance has doubled once (so far), but he still believes that staying in CA long term (another 10+ years) is a perfectly cromulent thing to do.

   When I recently tried to warn him off, to sell while the selling is good and move somewhere else, he said I was an alarmist. And he’s not a climate change denier, though he is in denial about how bad things already are.

4. The same people said that their home will not get flooded in Sarasota, Florida, and guess what happened.

5. 814,325 acres burned so far. The new average is 1.8 mil a year the record is 4.2 mil. Fire season ends November